Site Selection Documentation

Here you can find a range of Adobe Acrobat (PDF) and zipped files comprising detailed reports from SKA scientists, policy and decision makers over the course of the SKA’s site selection process. Additional documentation may in future be uploaded here, so please bookmark and check back regularly.

Report on the behaviour of Total Electron Content over candidate sites for SKA location (Report 1); Report on other ionospheric parameters for the candidate sites for the SKA location and an overall summary (Report 2).

Hermanus Magnetic Observatory: Correlation between energetic charged particle precipitation over the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly and L-band Ionospheric Scintillation over South Africa: Investigation in support of SA’s SKA bid.

Review of “Correlation between energetic charged precipitation over the South Atlantic Anomaly and L-band Ionospheric Scintillation over South Africa: Investigation of SA’s SKA Bid” by B. Opperman and P. Cilliers